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Warsaw Mayor to lose her post?
24.01.2007
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, the recently elected mayor of Warsaw, may lose her post. Gronkiewicz-Waltz submitted the financial statement of her husband two days after the deadline. This breakes the current regulations, which require public officials to submit the material status statements of their own and also of their spouses. Interior Minister Ludwik Dorn has said that having failed to fulfill this requirement on time, Gronkiewicz-Waltz is no longer the mayor of Warsaw.
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz is a major opposition Civic Platform politician. She won the race for Warsaw's top post last November, when she defeated the ruling Law and Justice candidate, former Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, in the second round of the elections.
Now both the ruling and the opposition party are in a row over whether Gronkiewicz-Waltz should resign. For the ruling Law and Justice party, breaking the regulations disqualifies the official from serving a public duty. The opposition Civic Platform party insists on a quickly prepared abolition bill that would allow Gronkiewicz-Waltz and other local government officials in a similar situation to remain in their posts. Interior Minister Ludwik Dorn said that if Gronkiewicz-Waltz does not resign, the matter will be considered by the governor of the Mazovian province.